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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Sunday Sweets is my weekly NON-Wrecks feature, the better to show how wrecky the Wrecks really are.

I grew up in the 80s, so I have a bit of a soft spot for the music, the movies, and the retina-searing color combinations of that decade. I also make funny squealing noises when I see references to nearly-forgotten loves like the Wuzzles or that Hugga Bunch made-for-TV movie. (Hey, even geek girls were girly girls at age 6, right?)

Sing it with me, Carrie G.: "Gummi Beeeaars! Bouncing here and there and EV'rywhere..."

This next one combines 3 great 80s icons: the Rubik's cube, Super Mario, and the oh-so-popular Garbage Pail Kids. (I had a whole album of those cards growing up. I'm guessing a little after the Hugga Bunch phase.)

Love it love it love it. And I still have a crush on Michael J. Fox. [wistful sigh]

Ok, this was just too much fun to stop the 80s theme now. That's right, you heard me: the e-mail lines are NOW open, folks, so go forth and find me 80s Sweets! I'm talking the cartoons (Snorks, anyone?) the games, the toys (Slinky, My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch - you get the idea), the movies (GhostBUSTERS!), and yes even the music (I know there's a Thriller cake out there somewhere). Send your finds to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.

And if you find all these blasts from the past just as fun as I do, you should check out the sticker section on Branded in the 80s. Anyone else remember Poochie the dog? Anyone?

YES, YES, YES!!! i soooo remember all of those things! not only were the cakes awesome for today, but it was great to remember all the great 80s icons:) and, um, i used to have that hugga-bunch movie taped (yep, on a VHS TAPE) and i would watch it every day...and i'll also admit i instantly started singing the gummi bears theme song when i saw that cake!!! thanks for the memories:)

I was a kid in the 80's, too. And I loved Gummi Bears, but couldn't remember their name until I scrolled to the beginning of the song. As soon as I read the first line, I could sing the whole theme song! I'm sure I'll really annoy my children today :)Beautiful cakes, of course!

Oh my goodness, I am so glad that there is someone else out there that remembers the hugga bunch kids! Anytime I ask someone about them they look at me as if I were insane. Also, I totally want that gummi bears cake for my 30th birthday!

Oh my god!! Thank you for the awesome trip down memory lane. It may be the thing that gets me through this last bit of winter. I'm now tempted to write a post about the 80's and if I do, I'll link to your blog. You do some mighty awesome work here!

Awww - I was so sure we were the same age! But now I see you are a mere youngster. I was too old to collect Garbage Pail Kids cards, and I don't recognize the Gummi Bear things. I was too busy listening to Quiet Riot to pay attention to such kitschy-ness :) But the Rubik's cube - now that rocks.

I STILL have my little stuffed Poochie puppy! She's kind of old and my 8 year old daughter plays with her now. It cracks me up that My Little Ponies, Cabbage Patch Kids and Rainbow Brite are all becoming popular again. They were HUGE 20 years ago when I was my daughter's age.

The '80s ... a very good decade for me, since that's when I met and married spouse!

My favorite is the Rubik's cube.

Eighties cakes I would like to see: MTV logo (back when it really DID mean Music Television); Weather Channel cake (when Jim Cantore, who is one of my great loves, still had hair); and a SINISTAR cake, since that is my all-time favorite video game!

Best Sunday sweets ever! I am an 80's lover as well and had a lovely trip down memory lane as I followed your link to the huggabunch movie (Yes I am over 25 and just spent an hour watching the huggabunch made for tv movie!)

A couple of summers ago I was in Romania visiting a friend's family, and had my back to the TV, which was on and tuned to a Hungarian station. I jumped about a foot when I heard a familiar theme song, and turned around in disbelief to see... Gummi Bears, in Hungarian.

Oh, thanks. Now I got 'One banana, two banana, three banana, four ...' stuck in the soundtrack to be followed the next half hour with 'H.R. Puffinstuff -- he's your friend when things get rough.' Yep. 'Can't get a little, can't get enought!'

Jen- I love you for mentioning Poochie. I have a collection of over 200 Poochie items from all over the world.

I have my original puppy my Mom gave me when I was 4 (she also made me a fabulous Poochie cake). Then I've added to my collection books, stampers, tape players, radios, tea sets (plastic and ceramic), halloween costumes, hair accessories, note pads, pencils, figurines, puppets, bath towels and even an original animation cell from the cartoon.

She's my obsession and one day I am going to put together a website for her.

If anyone wants to share a Poochie story (or has questions about her) email me at amrose _ you (at)yahoo dot com

The 80's had the REAL Wheel of Fortune - back when people still got to go shopping on set with the cash they'd won. They almost always had to use up the last bit with one of those horrid porcelain dalmatian sculptures...

Poochie! I remember Poochie. In fact, my mom nicknamed my little sister Poochie because she randomly found a videotape of a Poochie episode and watched until the tape wore out. My sister is twenty years old now, and Mom still calls her Poochie.

I NEED a Delorian cake. And of course I remember the Poochie dolls, I had one. Along with some sort of giant plastic/rubber Poochie-themed sheet with rubber sticker-like things that went on it. It had a very particular smell that I will never forget.

Which reminds me, I smelled something the other day that was a dead ringer for the Strawberry Shortcake doll. Sweet and plastic, oh baby.

I was driving to a friend's house one evening and actually saw a DeLorean being driven down the road. I couldn't get a picture of it because I was driving, and my 6 year old didn't have steady enough hands to take a picture with my cellphone either.

I was so excited to see the Gummi Bears cake! When hubby & I were in Vietnam 2 years ago, Gummi Bears was on every morning during breakfast. Ahh, the memories. The first day trying to remember why we knew the show & then timing our breakfast each day to catch the latest episode. Good times...

Oh my gosh! I almost stopped breathing when I saw the Gummi Bear cake! I want one! I want one! The Gummi Bears was our favorite show when we were kids! It was actually just released on DVD, and we definitely got three copies in my family this Christmas...

By the way, I've been following this blog almost since it started, and I absolutely adore it, but this is the first time I've commented - yay '80s! :)

HUGGABUNCH! Oh god, I have such a love/hate relationship with that movie. I absolutely LOVED it, up until I had my first ever (remembered, at least) nightmare because of it. I had a dream that I was pulled through the mirror into nothingness and woke up terrified lol. Ah, the mind of a child... hehe.

OH. MY. GOSH! I didn't know other people remembered Hugga Bunch! I made my friends watch that at every slumber party until I was 13 (shortly after which my brother taped over it). We thought it was hilarious.

AH, the memories! Am I the only one, who after watching the Hugga Bunch movie, stood in front of the mirror, hugging the crap out of my hugga bunch doll and pressing the mirror, just in case it really worked? I can't be the only one!

Oh! Oh! I'm SO GLAD I'm not the only one who remembers the Hugga Bunch movie. Just this past Tuesday, I was trying to describe it (and the dolls) to some friends, and they looked at me like I was crazy. Oh, the validation.

of course i remember poochie, but the question is, does anyone remember foofur? i had a stuffed foofur when i was a kid and that thing went EVERYWHERE with me. sadly, no one ever seems to remember him...

This is great! I collected Garbage Pail Kids stickers, too, and had a crush on MJF (they filled part of part 3 in my hometown, and part of that by my junior high, so I'd always peer out the bus window to catch a peek). I hope someone sends in a Dungeons and Dragons cake, complete with a giant Tiamat!

Okay, you said Hugga Bunch movie. I love you. No one ever remembers tat movie! Do you remember when I think it was Taco Bell was giving out the little dolls? My older cousins all collected them for me.

OMG thank you SO MUCH for that link to the Hugga Bunch movie! I used to watch that movie everyday (my dad taped it for me off tv). A few years ago, I tore my parents' house up looking for the VHS, but had no success. It's just as good as I remember it LOLI loved this week's Sunday Sweets! Really takes me back...

And through an ironic reversal, the Gummi Bears cake was just the result of a misunderstanding when the customer, completely unaware of the cartoon show, asked for gummi bear candies on top of the cake.

You know, the Wheel of Fortune one is really clever, because you have all your slices sectioned out already. You can just cut out every slice perfectly. Now if only other cakes could pull that off sans the WoF theme...

thank you for posting the link Branded in the 80's. It brought me way back to childhood and I realized, I have a LOT of those same stickers! I cant wait to get home and look at my collection again! That was sure fun!

OMG, I have been trying to figure out for YEARS what the memory of a live-action kids movie with an evil witch and a glass done was, and your Hugga Bunch link is IT! Never thought I would ever figure it out, let alone from a site about cakes. Heh! Thank you!!

YES! to H R Puf'n'Stuf and the Bugaloos! I sooo had a crush on the guy "Jimmy" from HR, Davey Jones, a young Scott Baio AND Michael J. Fox. Something about those, cute, short, dark-haired guys I guess.

i miss the 80's Fred Smilek is the acting president of the Society to Save Endangered Species. It was founded two years ago by Fred Smilek along with his two best friends Charles and Jonathan. http://www.fredjsmilek.com

The Wheel Of Fortune cake is mine, you have had some of my best and worst on here.www.charleyandthecakefactory.com. I am a military wife and have only been making cakes out of my home for three years. This one was for a gentlemen in Camp Pendleton CA who was on the show during Armed Forces week.

My name's Poochie D. and I rock the telly, I'm a half Joe Camel, and a third Fonzarelli. Get with the program, groovy dudemeister. I bite and fight and bite, All through the night, sir! Respect!.........Wrong Poochie?

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